All preventable? Crazy!

Every truck driver should lose their cdl for this crap.

 

Well I see that little pukes video made its way to the nation news ..

 

i cannot recall the exact year, but sometime from 1994 to 1999, i had worked for a company out of Richmond, VA, Highway Express, owned by none other than Mr James H.Cochran, the founder of Overnite.

i was southbound on the NJTP, in the right lane, doing maybe 30-35 mph.

i musta had about a dozen trucks behind me, (somehow, i gathered a parade) we were all just slugging along, in the snowstorm.

2, maybe 3 billy big riggers, flew by us, with them saying, "what's your malfunction Highway"..??

several of the guys behind me shouted out, "shut up stupid, he's doing a fine job, that's why we're behind him"....

i made it down to Richmond, VA, more hours than my normal 9, but i got there in one piece.

 

That's why I take issue when people say CBs are such a benefit and reduce accidents and all that. It works both ways. People use it to pressure to pressure others and get each other riled up.

 

It's almost 3 seconds after the first car comes into view that you hear the tires sliding. 3 freaking seconds!

I don't care that so many drivers are immigrants (I'm only 3rd generation, myself,) but I do care that they're bringing their 3rd world driving habits with them!

I told my wife that the same idiots who drive that fast in zero viz are the same idiots who'll stop, half in the travel lane, to clear their wipers.

/rant

 

It’s still shut down, drove by going south about 11 o’clock this morning. There’s at least a dozen tractor trailers. 4-5 wreckers working it when i went by.

 

Are snow squalls most common in PA? It seems that everytime I hear of a bad wreck involving specifically snow squalls, it seems to be coming from the mountains of PA.

I've been driving the Upper Midwest for the past several years and while I've experienced blizzards, I have never experienced snow squalls before. So I'm wondering if for whatever reason, PA seems to be more prone to snow squalls than other places.

Also on a side note, Pennsylvania and Wyoming ALWAYS seem to have the worst wrecks each and every during winter. It's always those two states where the really bad and the really big winter storm pileups happen.

 

These types of threads on this forum always seem to have a hateful tone to them, filled to the brim with arm chair quarterbacking.

So many people in this thread blaming others for not parking, when this was a snow squall. These things come on rapidly. Another poster who has been on this forum for a long time posted a thread and he drove through 3 snow squalls that same day and missed this one by minutes:

I was just minutes ahead of that 50+ car/truck pileup on Rt. 81 South

@rolls canardly

And also from him:

So to everyone in this thread who are so quick to blame others and tell other what they did wrong, despite not knowing exactly what every person involved in this was doing, please tell me how one is supposed to trip plan to a snow squall? And parking the truck everytime it snows isn't feasible either, nor is it necessary. It's not like this was a huge winter storm that everyone knew about 3 days in advance with calls for heavy snowfall for 48 hours or something. Snow squalls are just freak and deadly events that often occur without warning.

Also, the arm chair quarterbacks in this thread have no clue as to what each person involved in this tragedy did when this event occured. I would imagine (but obviously I don't know for sure) that many drivers did slow down and that many did get onto the shoulder when the snow squall hit. But even if you're slowed down to 35 MPH, you can still pick up speed very rapidly if you hit a slick spot and lose control, especially in a truck.

An absolute tragedy. I place blame on no one, RIP to all involved and a speedy and full recovery to those who were injured.

 

For their reaction time, you don't know if the driver was stunned by what he saw and had a delayed reaction. Or if his eyes could have been shifting to the opposite direction of the car on his passenger side and then his eyes caught the car on the passenger side at the 1.5 second mark or something like that.

Also, we don't know how fast the driver was going in this video. It seems that the truck was at least slowed down a little bit before the crash occured.

Last, please tell me what the drivers nationality has to do with anything? Because it's very clear from the reports coming out that plenty (probably the majority) of people caught up in this were Americans, so your comment about immigrants and their driving habits is unwarranted and has 0 relevancy for this event.